Graham Alexander Returns and Andrew Curry Debuts Mike Doughty along with People On Vacation and The Davenports on The Time Machine

Singer-songwriter Graham Alexander returned as a guest on The Time Machine to discuss what he's got coming up this year along with his contribution of a classic Kirsty MacColl song to Andrew Curry's upcoming album project "Here Comes The Reign Again: The Second British Invasion". Andrew also returned to the airwaves to premiere three more songs making their world broadcast debut including Mike Doughty's arrangement of Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "Relax", People On Vacation (Bowling For Soup's Reddick and Ryan Hamilton of Smile Smile ) performing Bananarama's 80s classic "Cruel Summer" and The Davenports take on Wham's "Freedom".







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Malika Dudley Interview on The Time Machine

Two time Emmy nominee and certified meteorologist, Malika Dudley was a radio guest on The Time Machine today. Malika was raised in Papa'ikou on the Hamakua Coast of Hawaii and tonight she appears as a contestant on NBC's "Hollywood Game Night". The free lance journalist resides on Maui and also runs a jewelry business. Malika not only has a black belt in karate but also wore the Miss Hawaii 2005 crown and Miss Congeniality at Miss America 2006. In addition to her two Emmy nominations, she also was awarded as an Edward R Murrow Regional Winner 2011 for Best Hard News Reporting: Hawaii's Tsunami Damage. On the lighter side, Malika shared her game show adventure with the radio audience about what it was like playing with "Hot In Cleveland" cast members Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves and Wendie Malick with host Jane Lynch.

Music featured on this afternoon Maui FM broadcast aircheck featured The Bangles.







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Jim Basnight Interview and Performance on The Time Machine

Rocker and singer-songwriter Jim Basnight was a musical guest on The Time Machine. Jim's career has received acclaim from critics all over the world and he shared his perspective and stories from his days with The Moberlys, The Rockinghams and his solo output. The Time Machine crew and staff were excited to have Jim perform live in the studio. Special thanks to Larry John for making it happen and to both producers Jenny Leong and Summer Blue for keeping us in check so as not to shame the island of Maui with our silly antics on the FM dial.












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Al Jarreau Interview and Andrew Curry Debuts Graham Alexander and Bleu on The Time Machine

Al Jarreau is truly an iconic musical legend. The multiple Grammy award winning artist is Maui bound for a concert and The Time Machine Crew were honored to have this gifted and talented artist as a guest on the broadcast. Al shared with the radio audience his love for music and expression. Host Michael McCartney and Al Jarreau went over a wide variety of topics on the show covering breakfast bowls of cereal to his upcoming album tribute to George Duke along with the pop success of his music to supplying the theme to the groundbreaking eighties ABC television series "Moonlighting". Al Jarreau and Michael McCartney personally discussed their connection with the tragedy of September 11th, 2001. Michael also asked Al why the musical world of Hip-Hop has not yet come clean to site Jarreau as an early major influence and the real story as to how Paul McCartney ended up singing Sam Cooke's classic "Bring It On Home To Me" on his album with Lahaina resident George Benson.

Andrew Curry returned to the broadcast to debut two brand new songs for the upcoming album project "Here Comes The Reign Again: The Second British Invasion". Both Bleu and Graham Alexander made their world broadcast debuts with cool covers. The first song that Andrew shared was Bleu's rocking cover of "Don't You Worry About Me" from Simple Minds featured in the eighties film classic "The Breakfast Club". Graham Alexander's took the late Kirsty MacColl's "They Don't Know About Us" single from 1979 that was also a Top 40 hit for actress Tracey Ullman a few years later (which Kirsty also sang as Tracey was unable to reach the super high notes of "Bay-ay-bee") and completely turned this incredible song upside down with a wonderful arrangement and a change of song title into "You Don't Care About Us". Both Graham and Bleu have been previous guests on The Time Machine broadcast so spinning these inspired covers on the Hawaiian airwaves was a musical treat for the radio staff.

Others artists featured on this afternoon Maui FM broadcast aircheck include L.E.O., Sounds Like Digging and Engelbert Humperdink with Shelby Lynne.







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Phil Solem, Cliff Hillis, Elyse Haren and Andrew Curry Interview on The Time Machine

Singer-songwriters Phil Solem (The Rembrandts, Great Buildings and Thrush), Cliff Hillis, Elyse Haren (Elyse + the Aftermath)and Andrew Curry were recent guests on The Time Machine. Phil Solem and Danny Wilde had just performed as The Rembrandts on NBC's "The Today Show" to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the hit television series "Friends". The theme song, "I'll Be There For You", remains a classic and memorable television show theme. It arrived on scene as the major networks began to really feel the pressure of their competition and suggested to all new series in production to not bother with an actual theme song and in many cases, keep a short five to ten second instrumental opening. The power of The Rembrandts performance clearly demonstrates the power of a catchy theme song to a television series. Twenty years later, it's nice to hear newer TV series like "The Goldbergs" and other sitcoms bringing theme songs back to network television. Phil's early band Great Buildings has been a staple of The Time Machine's playlists for thirty-three years and The Rembrandts remained in rotation since the duo's first album release in 1990. "That's Just The Way It Is, Baby" held onto the number one spot on The Time Machine's playlists for three months. Quite a feat that year, considering the massive airplay and radio requests for many songs off of Paul McCartney's 1989 album "Flowers In The Dirt", Aerosmith, Madonna, Pebbles, Phil Collins, Wilson Phillips, Billy Joel, Lou Gramm, Janet Jackson, Tommy Page, Rod Stewart, Sinéad O'Connor, Bell Biv Devoe, Mariah Carey, Billy Idol, En Vogue, Nelson, Heart, Maxi Priest, Alannah Myles, Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville, After 7, Taylor Dayne, Prince, Tom Petty, Depeche Mode, Bad English, Go West, Chicago, Gloria Estefan, Faith No More, Paula Abdul and Hawaii's very own Glenn Medeiros featuring Bobby Brown topping the charts around the world. The Time Machine Crew were hot and heavy back then on Maui's Top 40 powerhouse KMVI. Are you ready for this bit of information? The number one radio station in 1990 was not on FM but on the AM dial. Personality radio with big hits and classic songs from rock and roll's past along with Hawaiian music made KMVI AM 55 one of Maui's heritage radio stations that was embraced by the community and visitors alike. Getting sentimental just typing this out...

The Time Machine Crew were excited to have Phil Solem return to the airwaves last year with his cover of the Rick Nelson classic "Just A Little Too Much" off of the Pop Garden Radio release "Legacy - A Tribute To Rick Nelson Vol. 1" and Phil also announced the fantastic news that The Rembrandts latest album will be released later this year. Phil just got together with Cliff Hillis and the two of them composed and recorded "Tonight" which made it's world broadcast debut on The Time Machine. Phil shared the details behind the new song with the radio audience that we thought it would be nice to quickly ask Cliff Hillis to return to the radio show and get his side of the story. The duo call themselves simply Solem & Hillis. Cliff had been on the radio show before and it was great catching up with the talented artist who is putting the final touches on his upcoming album. Cliff garnered a great deal of airplay for over the past year on The Time Machine with his cover contribution of Ian Matthews' classic 1979 Top 40 hit "Shake It" (written and originally recorded two years earlier in 1977 by Terence Boylan) to the double album "Drink A Toast To Innocence: A Tribute to Lite Rock" produced by Andrew Curry. Andrew Curry returned to the broadcast to debut two brand new songs for the upcoming album project "Here Comes The Reign Again: The Second British Invasion". The first song that Andrew shared was the inspired arrangement of Adam Ant's 1982 hit "Goody Two Shoes" from Jim Boggia featuring Pete Donnelly followed up with another world broadcast debut of Human League's international monster hit "Don't You Want Me" (it's the 23rd most successful single in UK Singles Chart history) that the über talented Chris Price and Rachel Hoodrich gave their musical magic touch to the 1981 classic that topped the charts during the Christmas season that year in the United Kingdom and later became a smash hit in the summer of 1982 in America.

Elyse + the Aftermath released their sophomore album last month titled "Love and Armour" that is a tasty musical treat. The album has teeth with it's lyrical content and melodies. The gifted singer-songwriter Elyse Haren graced the FM dial and shared the inspiration behind her song "Stereo Kisses" and her thoughts behind covering the New Order song "True Faith". The new sound on the second album reflects Elyse's progression from pop rock into the electronic pop world and is being compared to Blondie, Garbage, the Killers and Goldfrapp, The album was co-produced by Andrew Williams and Chris Arena (Mirrorball Entertainment - Tony Maserati) and mixed by Mark Needham (Killers, Fleetwood Mac, Imagine Dragons) and Andrew Williams (Five for Fighting, Jessica Simpson, Toad the Wet Sprocket). Elyse + the Aftermath shared the stage with world famous pop band Berlin and a staple of The Time Machine's playlist since the eighties (lead singer Terri Nunn was one of The Time Machine's favorite guest appearances on the radio show). Elyse + the Aftermath have toured the Southwestern Unites States three times, most notably to Austin, Texas to play the acclaimed SxSw Music Festival in 2011. The second album "Love & Armour", was fully funded by their fans through Pledge Music, with a portion of the funds raised to be donated to the Keep a Breast Foundation. Others artists featured on this afternoon Maui FM broadcast aircheck include The Skies of America, Low Millions, Take That, Fountains of Wayne, The Rembrandts and Great Buildings.







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Below: Official music video for "Novocaine" by Elyse + the Aftermath




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Below: Official music video for "Love Fever" by Elyse + the Aftermath




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Below: Official music video for "Keep The Blue Skies" by Cliff Hillis




Below: Music video for "The Way She Smiles" by The Rembrandts




Below: Official music video for "That's Just The Way It Is, Baby" by The Rembrandts




Below: Music fan video for "I'll Be There For You" (Theme from "Friends") by The Rembrandts




Below: Official music video for "Someone" by The Rembrandts






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Michael Laine Hildebrandt of Bubble Gum Orchestra Interview on The Time Machine

"ELO Forever" is a new single being released on May 6th from Bubble Gum Orchestra. It's a track off of the upcoming July 1st album release "Beyond Time". "ELO Forever" takes the song titles and lyrics of various songs from the Electric Light Orchestra and weaves them into a song. Michael Laine Hildebrandt was a musical guest on The Time Machine to share the forthcoming single with the radio audience.

New music also heard on this Hawaiian afternoon FM aircheck include songs from Mike Viola and Orianthi. Others artists featured on this broadcast include Paul McCartney, Eric Carmen, The Tories, Electric Light Orchestra, Fountains of Wayne and Susanna Hoffs.







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David Mead and Secret Friend World Broadcast Debuts from Andrew Curry on The Time Machine

Andrew Curry returned to The Time Machine this week with two more brand new eighties covers making their world broadcast debut from the forthcoming release "Here Comes The Reign Again: The Second British Invasion" Singer-songwriter David Mead's wonderful take on the Duran Duran classic "Save A Prayer" and Secret Friend's cool version of "West End Girls" featuring the vocals of Bradley Dean Whyte that was a huge international hit for the Pet Shop Boys both got airplay this week. Andrew shared the details with the radio audience about these two songs.

New music also heard on this Maui afternoon FM aircheck include songs from Eric Barao and Fernando Perdomo. Others artists featured on this broadcast include Courtney Jaye and Ryan Powers & The Secret Weapons.







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